Nest of Tens
1999 | 00:27:00 | United States | English | Color | Mono | 4:3
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Family, Youth/Childhood
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Nest Of Tens is comprised of four alternating stories which reveal mundane yet personal methods of control. These systems are derived from intuitive sources. Children and a retarded adult operate control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters, and their own bodies.
"A young boy, home alone, performing a bizarre ritual with a baby; an uneasy, aborted sexual flirtation between a teenage babysitter and an older man; an airport lounge encounter between a businesswoman (played by July) and a young girl. Linked by a lecturer enumerating phobias in a quasi-academic seminar, these three perverse, unnerving scenarios involving children and adults provide authentic glimpses into the queasy strangeness that lies behind the everyday."
— New York Video Festival (2000)
This title is also available on Miranda July Videoworks: Volume 1.
Prizes + Awards
Prizewinner, Thaw Festival, Iowa City 2001


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